>This "wars for oil" stuff is something a lot of people repeat to themselves without really thinking about it.
And then you bring Venezuela, Russia, Nigeria etc as examples where these things didn't happen...
Not only forgetting all the places where those wars DID happen (all over the wider middle east for one), but also the numerous ways the west intervened in those places, from constant pressure with tons of ways (sponsoring political opponents, arming guerilla groups, helping their border states invade them, manipulating their economy, down to toppling governments).
If you don't count the hunt for Pancho Villa, then it was twice. Once during the Mexican-American War, and then the Occupation of Veracruz during the Mexican Revolution.
And the war with Mexico occurred thirteen years before the US started using oil commercially.
This "wars for oil" stuff is something a lot of people repeat to themselves without really thinking about it.